May 23, 2020
Trump is right about the huge potential for ballot fraud in Michigan's election
By Monica Showalter
To hear the mainstream media tell it, President Trump is somehow paranoid at Michigan's latest gambit to mail absentee voting applications to all registered voters in the state.
Here's the selectively distorted reporting from the Detroit News:
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to attack Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's plan to send absentee ballot applications to qualified Michigan voters ahead of the August and November elections.
The president threatened federal funding for Michigan and erroneously said Benson planned to send absentee ballots, when the Detroit Democrat instead plans to send voters applications for the ballots ahead of the elections.
They ran it with a photograph of Trump with a photoshopped color manipulation that exaggerated the color of his skin as well as his blue tie to colors not consistent with the lighting in the room. They also had this:
Trump again claimed, without evidence, that mail-in voting is susceptible to fraud, although experts say incidents of voter fraud are rare, particularly in national elections.
"Mail-in ballots are very dangerous. There's tremendous fraud involved and tremendous illegality," he said.
In a reply to his Wednesday tweet, Trump tagged his chief of staff Mark Meadows, the U.S. Treasury and Russ Vought, director of the federal Office of Management and Budget.
Benson responded to Trump's tweet on Twitter, noting the state planned to send applications, not ballots to qualified voters.
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